A New Year on the Horizon!
“Chronologically we’re at the end of the year but the beginning of the journey.” Sarah Ban Breathnach We are fast coming up on one of my favorite weeks of the year – the week between Christmas and the New Year!…
The Courage of Self Awareness
“One of the most courageous things you can do is identify yourself, know who you are, what you believe in and where you want to go.” — Sheila Murray Bethel Self awareness is the first step in…
Beware of the Ripple Effect
“Only in quiet waters do things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.” ?Hans Margolius It’s sometimes called the “ripple effect” when something disturbs still water, and what had started as small systematically…
6 Steps to Succession Management
You always need to remain proactive in your approach to succession management. A recent Wall Street Journal article advises that “management should maintain a succession chart providing details about the background and skills of promising internal professionals and roles they…
12 Ways to Multi-Task While Maintaining Focus
There’s been a lot of debate over the last few years about the effectiveness of multitasking. Productivity experts make the case that trying to do more than one thing at the same time leads to poor results — and half-finished…
Hiring with Precision to Maximize Employee Performance
One question I am asked from time to time is, “How do we use behavioral assessments in a way that integrates well into our hiring and succession management decisions?” The most important thing to remember when making hiring and succession…
Promoting from Within
It’s always great to know you have good people within your company and a strong pool of qualified individuals coming up through the ranks. Given the opportunity these people can, and will, comfortably move into leadership positions as the years…
Conscientiousness – Why it Matters
When I saw an article on Entrepreneur’s website titled The Personality Trait That Most Often Predicts Success I was naturally curious. After all, the bulk of my work centers on behaviors or what some call, personality traits. So what was…
Assessment of Candidates Versus Assessment of Employees
A very important distinction to make when using hiring and employee development assessments is the difference between – External candidates (those being considered for positions) Internal personnel (employees). It’s pretty simple: When making hiring decisions using behavior assessment feedback, interviewing,…